How to Use clumsy in a Sentence

clumsy

adjective

• I have very clumsy hands and tend to drop things.
• She made a clumsy attempt at a joke.
• I'm sorry about spilling your wine—that was very clumsy of me.
• The main feature of the dance is a clumsy bit of hand jive.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• My body is a lovely, clumsy thing to move through the world in.
  — Olivia Treynor, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2023
• This is carbonara for the clumsy, the impatient and the greedy.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The results of Sam’s attempts are clumsy and a bit of a mixed bag.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• Even one of the extras notes how clumsy and comic the movie is.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2022
• Just a clumsy elbow bump and a few worlds of small talk.
  — oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2020
• Another one of the boys laughed and called him a clumsy d-word.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• Be careful, be clumsy, run hot, stay cool, be the bull in the China shop.
  — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• And this—clumsy segue alert—is one way to pull out of a subscription!
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024
• My clumsy, blue skis begin to skim the lake, like a sea gull scanning for snacks.
  — Gloria Goodale, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• Worse still, from the French view, the Emperor is portrayed as a clumsy lover.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• The dredges are homemade and clumsy, as big as houseboats.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• But some bad luck and some clumsy mistakes were the difference as the Rangers dropped to 16-18.
  — Dallas News, 7 May 2021
• There can be no slips of the tongue, no clumsy expression.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• What was trickiest to nail down was the thing that looks the clumsiest: the student film.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2024
• Coots are rather clumsy in flight and taking off is a challenge.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
• Trevor Bauer makes a clumsy grab at the playoff spotlight.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• The nonslip silicone base on this carafe is great for the clumsy tea lovers.
  — Sierra Guardiola, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2021
• In less expert hands, the contrast might have felt clumsy.
  — and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024
• And there’s a way of doing that that can be clumsy and flattening.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
• The solution to my clumsy start, I’m told, is to drive more quickly.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• Humpback whales lack lips, so the calves can be clumsy and on very rare occasions miss some of the milk.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• For fans who were used to Lewis as the clumsy Longbottom, his entrance at the end of the second episode comes as a shock.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• The first game in the Last of Us franchise feels a little clumsy by modern standards.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 4 May 2021
• This is clumsy but can still make a better base than a tough, thick one that’s rolled out badly.
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• The sudden shift in scale feels clumsy at best, especially when the set of circumstances just seen in the film are presented in such extreme, broad strokes.
  — Ryan Swen, Variety, 18 Jan. 2025
• In a moment when Liston was hurling a clumsy punch and his balance was susceptible, Ali threw what looked like a swiping right graze at his opponent’s head.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2025